Ms Aoibh?nn Doyle:

In our secondary school we do an education for sustainability course. Many of the requirements of the course are for the students to take action in a certain way. It could be linked in with education and the curriculum in order that part of the curriculum is around the student taking action. That could be a clean-up day, getting out in the local community and helping to pick up litter, or an activity through Young Social Innovators, YSI, which we did this year.

We had a young social innovators group which focused on the litter in our school and how to improve our system of rubbish and waste. It is about having incentives and initiatives like that to encourage young people and to draw them in to do that. Once they are in the habit of it, they will keep going and might encourage their peers and fellow friends to take part also.